SeasonofGiving2011

BrightStone seeks and values our volunteers who help carry out our mission of providing quality services for adults who are developmentally disabled.

We are blessed with a growing network of community volunteers including educators, businesses, churches, and other interested individuals.

Some Volunteer opportunities include:

Greet arriving guests & answer the phone at the Receptionist desk one day per week.

Help in the classroom one day each week (8:00 - 3:30) or one morning each week (8:00 - 12:00) teaching the students to use the computer, play board games, cook, complete a craft, participate in outdoor games

Give a one-time demonstration or program of a craft, an artistic skill, or a professional skill

Assist students at the YMCA once or twice a week

Plan and implement a holiday or birthday celebration

Assist the Product Designer in preparing student-made products for sale

Help with a fund raising benefit (see Golf Benefit; Songwriters Night)

Help with a craft sale

Label and prepare mail-outs or newsletters for bulk mail

Assist with clerical duties

Provide professional services in the areas of: graphic design work, printing, catering, planning, decorating, etc.

Help to organize a special event, such as our Christmas Reception or Appreciation Luncheon

Share with your church or civic organization about BrightStone

Our goal is to match your talents, skills, and interests with a meaningful volunteer assignment. Please let us know if any of these opportunities interest you. If you have a skill or talent not included on this list and would like to share, please call and we will be happy to discuss your volunteer ideas. Individuals must be at least 18 years of age to volunteer.

Your volunteer help is needed and greatly appreciated! If you have questions about volunteering at BrightStone, please contact my friend, Tina Majors at 615-790-4888 or tina.majors@brightstone.org.

Tennessee: The Volunteer State

We are known as the Volunteer State! This well-deserved reputation is historical in nature and takes on numerous meanings when you think of Tennessee's volunteerism. This reputation is evident here in Middle Tennessee as we are blessed with an abundance of goodwill from individuals and organizations alike that contribute their time and resources throughout the year.

Season of Giving

This time of year, as we pause to give thanks during Thanksgiving, celebrate the gift of life during Christmas, and reflect on memories of 2011 and the possibilities of the upcoming year, we naturally think of others and their needs and what we can do to help during the Season of Giving. Our communities' volunteer organizations work to fill the food banks, gather clothing for the needy, promote coat drives, and collect care packages for our men and women that volunteer their lives in the protection of all of us back home in the United States.

Each year, I am proud to feature one of these worthy charitable organizations during the Season of Giving. This year, I wish to introduce you to and feature BrightStone located in Franklin.

I became familiar with this organization via my friend and fellow REALTOR®, Connie Harvey of Pilkerton Realtors. Connie shares the same philosophy of community involvement and promotion of our many volunteers, charities and programs. For additional worthy organziations, please view my Charities page at www.bargers-solutions.com.

BrightStone provides a comprehensive work, social support, and future residential community for adults with special needs, expanding their potential and helping them develop mentally, physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually.

The desire is to assist in the life journey of adults who live each day with a developmental disability who can live and work in their community when provided assistance. We want to accomplish this by providing for their total life needs - job, home, recreation, social, physical, health - in a God-centered, caring environment.

BrightStone is a resource in the community founded to provide for the multiple needs of adults who are developmentally disabled.

About BrightStone

Volunteer

BARGERS SOLUTIONS, a proud member of PILKERTON REALTORS | 2 Cadillac Drive, Brentwood TN 37027 address

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